Player - 3B, Maikel Franco, Clearwater/Reading… Six games… Batted .458 (11-for-24), 7 R, 3B, 3 HR, 8 RBI, 3 BB, 0 SO… Franco takes home honors as Player of the Week for the second time this season… Earned a promotion to double-AA Reading after he hit .299 (79-for-264), 42 R, 23 2B, 16 HR, 20 BB, 52 RBI & a .576 SLG % in 65 games with Clearwater… Since being bumped to Reading, as of print Franco is batting .524 (11-for-21), hitting safely in every game, with a 1.498 OPS in 5 contests… Over his last 9 games split between Clearwater and Reading, Franco is batting .500 (18-for-36), 12 R, 2B, 3B, 6 HR, 4 BB, 1 SO, 14 RBI… The 20-year-old third-baseman leads the organization in HR (18) & RBI (57)… A native of Azua, Dominican Republic, Franco was signed by the Phillies as a non-drafted free agent on January 13, 2010 by Koby Perez.

Lakewood BlueClaws - South Atlantic League North Division - First Half-26-41, 7th place… Second Half - 1-3, T-6th place… 1-3 for the week… Lakewood hosted the SAL All-Star game and as a result played only 4 G this week… OF Larry Greene had a hit in each of the 4 G played including 2 H in each of the last 3 to end the week… Greene batted .412 (7-for-17)… DH/INF Willie Carmona, coming off Player of the Week honors last week, stayed hot… Carmona hit .333 (5-for-15), 2 2B... The 22-year-old had a 10 G hitting streak snapped 6/23 and is batting .380 (27-for-71) since 5/26… OF Brian Pointer batted .333 (5-for-15), 2 2B, SB… 1B Art Charles scored 4 runs with 3 doubles… BlueClaws pitching took their lumps with a 7.91 staff ERA (29 ER, 33.0 IP) in the 4 G… RHP Luis Paulino made 2 scoreless appearances (3.1 IP, 5 SO)… RHP Miguel Nunez made 1 start (5.0 IP, 1 ER, 6 SO).

Gulf Coast League Phillies - 0-2, 4th place, 0-2 for the week… The Gulf Coast Phils started their season with a twin-billing on 6/21… In Game 1 of the DH, the club took a tough loss in 13.0 innings… Starting for GCL was RHP Alejandro Arteaga (4.0 IP, 2 R, 0 ER, 4 SO) in Game 1 and RHP Feliberto Sanchez (3.0 IP, 0 R, 2 SO) in Game 2… It should be noted that 4 of the Phillies top 5 selections in the 2013 First-Year Player Draft (SS J.P. Crawford-1st round 16th overall, OF Cord Sandberg-3rd round 89th overall, SS Jan Hernandez-3rd round 96th overall & C Jacob Sweaney-4th round 121st overall) are expected to lace up their spikes for the GCL Phils at some point this summer.